Improvement in fish-hooks



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEG ENGELBREOHT AND SKIFF, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

IKMPROVEMENT IN FISH-HOOKS.

Spccillcation forming, part of Letters Patent No. 4,670, dated July 28, 1846.

To all whom 'it may Concern.-

Be it known that we, THEODORE F. ENGEL- BREoI-rr and Grnonon F. STUFF, of the city of New York, in the State otl New York, have invented a new and Improved Mode of Constructing' Hooks t'or Catchiug Fish; and We do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description ot' the saine, and to enableothcrs skilled in the arts to make and use our invention, we proceed to describe its construction Iand operation.

We take a hook made like an ordinary shhook, ot' any suite ble metal or other material, and at a propel' distance up the shank, about where the curve ot' the hook terminates, the shank is tiattened to the end thereof. At the point A, Figure 1, is attached a lever, B, being so curved that, when its point is depressed it slightly overlaps the point of the hook. This lever is held np by the projection O,attached to the slide E, dropping,` down over the catch 0I' spurl) on the aforesaid lever. Fis a spring fastened to the shank oi" the hook G, and so jointed to the tumblerli as to be thrown down with considerable force the moment the connection at O and l) is disengaged-a result which brings the point ot' the hook and the curved point ot the lever into close contact, (see Fig'. 2,) and the iish is thus firmly held fast. without'. any power to escape by slipping oli' the hook. The line is attached to the slide E at the shank I. The spring.:` F being' set and the bait adjusted, the hook is ready for being lowered into the water. When the bait is taken into the tishs mouth the least pull causes the hook G to descend by means of the slide E. This descent disengages the lever from the connection at C and D, and the [ish is caught on his head by the descending lever B. The slide E operates by means of one or two rivets passing from it through a slot, which extends from the front to the back of the shank Gr, and in which the rivets play from J to K. The rivets are shown by the dotted lines between J and K, and their heads L L confine the slide to its proper place. This slide may be made to operate by means of a ring or hand round the shank, and the shank may bc tlattened, as before stated, or it may be made round. The form we do not consider ot' any importance, as a round or flattened shank will be adopted according to its economy in manufacturing'.

The lever may be made with one or more curved points, and to act in any suitable inanner to secure the .ish by substituting a spiral springI for that now used; but wc consider the flat spring preferable. i

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The construction ofa self-acting spring and slide lever-hook tor catching fish, constructed as above described, and whether spiral or other springs arc employed, or Whether the lever is made to descend by being disengaged from a slide operating as herein described, or by any other analogous process.

2. `The invention ot' a hook for catching fish, operated by a spring, a lever, and a slide, Whether working as described above or in any other way.

THEODORE F. ENGELBREOHT. GEORGE F. SKIFF. In presence ot'- C. D. RIGNEY, S. B. HoLT. 

